Funding for preventive services doubled to over half a billion pounds to drive restoration in family and parenting support ...

The survey revealed 94% of participants believe emotional abuse in childhood can have a lasting psychological effect well ...

The Kinship Young Champions’ film project funded by BBC Children in Need highlights the 141,000 children in kinship care in ...

The winners of the LexisNexis Legal Awards 2025 were announced in a glittering awards ceremony on Thursday 13 March at a ...

This paper describes an innovative approach to assist the outcome of entrenched private law contact and residence disputes where dependent children are caught up in their parents' 'chronic' ...

The final report and recommendations of the Vulnerable Witnesses and Children Working Group has been published. The Working Group (headed by Hayden J and Russell J) was set up by Sir James Munby, ...

In Wolverhampton City Council v JA & Ors [2017] EWFC 62, Keehan J dealt with a care case which involved allegations of sexual abuse of two young girls. They were aged 13 (X) and 12 (Y) at the time of ...

The labours of the Private Law Working Group, set up by the President of the Family Division back in August 2013, have now come to fruition and on 22 April the new Practice Direction 12B - Child ...

This article explores the principles of care for children deprived of their liberty including the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory’s recent recommendations on the care provision for children who ...

The Budget of 30 October 2024 (‘the Budget’) was one of the most hotly anticipated budgets in almost two decades. Not only was it the first Budget from a new government, there had also been ...

Once viewed as an exception, shared care arrangements are now fast becoming the go-to solution for many courts in private child arrangements disputes. However, is this shift happening too rapidly?